VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

The Indomitable Spirit

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
The Indomitable Spirit
New York: Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, 1989. Portfolio of ten prints in various media by John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Jan Goover, Annette Lemieux, Duane Michals, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Weber and William Wegman; each signed and numbered '7/50', some also variously dated in pencil/ink (margin, mount or verso); image sizes ranging from 5 x 7 1/2 in. (12.6 x 19 cm.) to 27 x 22 in. (60.5 x 55.8 cm.) or inverse; sheet sizes ranging from 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.7 cm.) to 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.) or inverse; each in paper wrapper with printed artist credit; together with text insert and colophon numbered '7/50' in ink; number seven from an edition of fifty plus fifteen artists' proofs; contained in black linen clamshell portfolio case with an offset image by Barbara Kruger affixed to the cover and orange lettering.

Provenance

Sotheby’s, New York, April 8, 1995, lot 464;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

The titles are as follows:

JOHN BALDESSARI (B. 1931)
Blue Boy (with Yellow Boy: One with Hawaiian Tie, One in Dark), 1989, three color lithograph

CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Sunflower, 1989, internal dye diffusion transfer print

JAN GROOVER (1943–2012)
Untitled, 1989, chromogenic print

ANNETTE LEMIEUX (B. 1957)
Apparition, 1989, chromogenic print

DUANE MICHALS (B. 1932)
Untitled, 1989, gelatin silver print

RICHARD PRINCE (B. 1949)
Untitled, 1983, chromogenic print

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925–2008)
Untitled (from the Bleacher Series), 1989, bleached gelatin silver transfer print

CINDY SHERMAN (B. 1954)
Untitled, 1979/1989, chromogenic print

BRUCE WEBER (B. 1946)
NYC Studio, 1986, gelatin silver print

WILLIAM WEGMAN (B. 1942)
Second and Third Steps, 1989, two gelatin silver prints (diptych)

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